Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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